NEW DELHI: The city recorded 255 Covid-19 cases on Sunday with a positivity rate of 0.35%, the seventh day in a row that the figure has remained below 0.50%.
While both the figures are slightly higher than Saturday’s 213 fresh cases and 0.30% positivity rate, the lowest in more than 100 days, 23 Covid-19 fatalities recorded in the past 24 hours is the lowest in 67 days.
The death count of 23 is the lowest since April 7, when 20 people had succumbed to the disease.
The overall toll stood at 24,823, with a case fatality rate of 1.72%.
The months of April and May witnessed the disease snatch away more than 13,000 lives.
The new cases recorded on Sunday were from 72,751 tests, including 53,885 RT-PCR and 18,866 rapid antigen tests.
The number of new Covid cases and positivity rate had touched the peak of 28,395 daily cases on April 20 and that of 36.24% on April 22.
The situation witnessed significant improvement in the last fortnight with active cases coming down from 12,100 on May 30 to 3,466 on Sunday and 376 patients recovering from Covid — a dip of 71.3%.
Compared with the all-time high of 99,725 active cases on April 28, the number has come down by a massive 96.5%.
The last week recorded 33.1 fatalities on average every day, nearly half of the 62.8% fatality average recorded the week before and one-tenth of 388.3 deaths a day recorded between April 26, a Monday, and May 2, a Sunday, the deadliest week of the city’s Covid wave.
On May 3, the capital saw 448 fatalities, the highest in a single day since the pandemic outbreak.
The last week saw an average of around 271 fresh cases daily, a dip of 48% compared with 522 fresh cases on average every day seen the week before.
The overall positivity rate in the previous week was 0.71% and this week saw it dip significantly to 0.37%.
The number of patients recuperating in home isolation as on Sunday is 1,037, while 1,972 are hospitalised and, out of the total 24,080 hospital beds, 22,108 are vacant.
Out of the total 6,684 Covid ICU beds, 5,607 were vacant at 10pm, according to Delhi government’s online Corona dashboard, including 1,795 vacant ICU beds with ventilators out of a total 2,531.